Democrats want to tax you at 70%. And every inside the D.C. bubble media pundit will ask Democrats to defend a "70% tax rate" PERIOD. Another talking point which i am surprised i have not yet seen is class warfare. Well, that war has been fought for decades and we all know who has won.

Peace

The top bracket was 91 percent, meaning if you fell into that bracket, you paid 91 percent on the percentage of your income that was above that in the next lower bracket - not that you paid 91 percent on ALL of what you made.

Seriously.

Only the very highest income earners would pay that much and only on the top part of their income, after deductions. I imagine AOCs plan would be similar.

What are all these rich people with accountants afraid of?

Or, as the GOP has termed them while trying to get rid of the ones you rely on, "loopholes." In the old days the Internal Revenue Code was pretty much a build-your-own-tax-cut plan that required you to spend money to get your tax cut.

The example I've used before: if you want to use money to convince your kid to study harder, would you tell him "I will give you $25 for each report card you bring home that's got all straight As on it" or "here's $100, get straight As but if you don't, that's okay too"? The GOP has been using the second one since the Reagan administration and by damn, they can't believe their kid doesn't bring home straight As...or people start hiring workers they don't need, or companies start replacing equipment that still sorta works.

on all of their income, like the Republicans are trying to let on they do.

I do favor a flat tax of 40% on any net pay or gross profit over $10 million, UNLESS, the individual business owner or company agree to allocate say 20% of the money to investments in equipment and workers and supplies, no buying yatchs or buying back stock.

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...Ike would have never become President. He’d have been defeated for the 1952 Republican nomination by a Fox-backed Joe McCarthy, and probably tarred as an “accomplice of Stalin” in WWII.

honest, and have our own talking points,

The 70% number comes directly from Reagan's economic policy. This is not a new thing. It also only affects annual income over $10 million, meaning the first $10 million would be taxed at current rates.

She's not hurting us overall too much. None of the junior congresspeople are, no matter what you see on the news. They're not our Tea Party, or our demise. That's blather created for ratings. Ignore it unless she attacks the party itself. Which so far it seems she's too smart to do. I suspect she has all the makings of a true politician and I'm willing to wait and see.

Let her be and let her be her. I don't really understand her level of national celebrity, but that's over and done and between her and the media now. She's working a groove to try and escalate herself. I get that. Hell, I'd do the same in her shoes.

I'm pro leave her be and let her find her own balance. Either she will, or she won't. She has a lot of eyes and stress on her now, but she's a first year junior Congressperson. She's a rookie. Give her some space and a year or so to find her feet before we judge her.

Hell, she's not even ours to judge. She belongs to her district and they're the people she's supposed to be representing after all.

They don't understand what AOC and we do about how income tax brackets work, and that even very wealthy people's lower levels of income are taxed at lower rates. That the higher rates talked about would apply to income over $x, some very high number, and to that income ONLY.

Which makes it easy for Repubs like this guy to launch the figure into their meme-o-sphere as their latest scary supposed outrage-of-the-week.

Even if one does leave the word "marginal" in the term -- which the fearmonger party never does -- I don't think most people grasp what's being said. A "60% marginal income tax rate" still scares even people whose own rate would never go beyond the 20s.

The language used in discussing personal income taxation isn't conducive to making this important distinction clear to the listener.

I don't know what it is, but we need better ways of expressing what's being talked about. Terminology that isn't so easy to mis-represent and mis-understand.

Terminology that isn't so easy to mis-represent and mis-understand."

It is PERFECTLY easy to understand, to anybody with a good, normal education, and a functioning brain.



Oh, wait !!!!!!!!!!!! MAGAs

Silly me

start saying Mother Fucker more.

Since the November elections there is SO much more kick-ass responding coming from Democrats.
"We're mad as hell and we're not gonna' take it anymore!"

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shouldn't have any problem with it, since they will avoid it by creating so many jobs and writing off the wages of those they hired, right? Isn't that their claim?

he just got lit up...

or some other such antiquated bullshit. These people are scum and it's been a long time coming to name names and kick their asses. Fuck you, scalise, you piece of shit. We're coming.

I think a lot of older people are bothered by change.

And, ideally, the old and middle aged retain their political youth in at least some respects.

I am liking her more and more!

Something Americans rarely hear.

Looks like a new day, GOP. She’s saying out loud what a lot of people are thinking.

Their slimy smears and sneers are going to lose impact.

who doesn't let this stuff go.

Go AOC! Keep bringing it right back to them.

AOC speaking her truths? I take it to mean when its contrary to the republican belief and talking points,
it's hurting the Democrats? Will someone explain?
I personally LOVE HER.

They think if they couch the attack in some kind of concern it will make it seem more legitimate. It doesn't.

and putting him in a defensive position? She is REALLY good. And should pay no heed to those on this site and elsewhere telling her to do this, that, or the other, and to step back and allow herself to be mothered/nurtured. This young woman is fierce and clearly knows what she's doing.

She fires right back at those going after her, love it.

Bartcop would have loved her, finally a Democrat who fights back and spanks the Republican asshats. She is another example of the wonderful people that have called the Bronx their home like Sonya Sotomayor and Fiorello LaGuardia.
I went to high school in Parkchester near her home , I am proud to have being from the Bronx in common with such a bright strong person as AOC. I wish her great success.


  

Scalise-speak for anything helping the average Joe at the presumed expense of the corpo-class.